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A bug enthusiast's dream and your average person's worst nightmare, this rare titan beetle discovery has set Japanese Twitter abuzz. While studying insects in South America, Twitter user and Japanese entomologist Munetoshi Maruyama came across a t...

Shortly after promotional material began a round of early circulation on Japanese anime blogs, plans were officially announced for a 2017 Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic anime movie. The follow-up to the 2008, 2010 and 2014 TV anime and OVA wil...

Look, we're not guaranteeing that these Case Closed/Detective Conan shoes and socks will reveal whodunnit, but there's a pretty good chance something magical will happen. ERIMAKI SOX has a collaboration with Detective Conan in Japan, and the resul...

Series creator Kotaro Uchikoshi announced that Aksys Games will fully reveal Zero Time Dillema next month sometime during the same time as GDC 2016. We also got a look at some of its characters. The following is a look at some of the participating...

American late night TV is getting another taste of Japanese pop culture, as the Late Show With Stephen Colbert will be hosting Japanese metal idol group, Baby Metal, to promote their latest album, Metal Resistance.

The official website for the anime adaptation of Yu Sasuga and Kenichi Tachibana's popular sci-fi action Terra Formars manga series revealed a new key visual for the upcoming second season of Terraformars, titled Terraformars Revenge, on Thursday.

Astro Boy is getting closer to takeoff. A year ago, we heard Animal Logic Entertainment (the animation and effects studio behind hits like Avengers: Age of Ultron and The Lego Movie) was planning to adapt the classic Japanese manga as a live-actio...

iCON DOLL LOUNGE announced to hold an event "iCON DOLL LOUNGE ~2016 SPRING&SUMMER COLLECTION~" on 24th April, 2016 at Hibiya Yagai Dai Ongakudo. This event will be the largest scale ever in their event.

Dempagumi. inc announced to release their third album named "GO GO DEMPA" (Release Date: April 27th)! Its title comes from their tour "GO GO DEMPA TOUR 2016 ~Madamada Yume de Owaranyo! ~". Dempagumi. inc now releases new singles three months in a ...

Superbowl 50 ended with a win for the Denver Broncos over the Carolina Panthers, and also featured a few unforgettable Superbowl ads, one of which celebrated 20 years of Pokemon. The ad, which gained approximately 825,000 views on TV, sparked a lo...

The anime series Ace of the Diamond is powering on as is the manga from Yuuji Terajima. The first act of the series finished out last year at 47 volumes and the Ace of the Diamond Act II series is moving right along.

Over the past few years, the anime world has seen the "magical high school" premise go from an unusual twist on the action genre to a staple of the medium. At this point, it would be as strange to see a season go by without at least one new magica...

There's a cosplayer in Russia that just got the badass stamp of approval. Her name is Yuliya, also known as Yukiko Ai and she does some pretty amazing cosplays. But recently no fucks were given when she decided to snow board in nothing but a Sailo...

Spinoff video game series continues to cater to its fanbase with another helping of T and A. Some argue that video game publisher Koei Tecmo is crude or immature for its Dead or Alive Xtreme sub-series, which takes the female fighters of its Dead ...

December of last year when the stage production of Fairy Tail was announced. This will be the first time Fairy Tail will have a theatrical adaptation. Meet the characters of this stage play after the jump.

Sometime this week, KAITO, the first Japanese, male Vocaloid celebrates his 10th anniversary. Since Yamaha has a February 14th date, 2006 and Crypton has a 17th, fans give the Naoto Fūga based virtual voice that full range.

We knew it was coming as it was announced recently that Squid Girl, aka Shinryaki! Ika Musume, would be ending with its 22nd volume. Creator Masahiro Anbe brought that news out in the 21st volume of the series and now Weekly Shonen Champion magazi...

Could Young Justice find a bit of love in the coming years? Khary Payton, who has voiced Aqualad in the series, tweeted out late last week that he hasn't heard anything official but has a REAL GOOD FEELING about a potential third season.

The Pokemon anime has been running for 19 seasons -- wow, I must have missed a few here and there. Series three of the X & Y saga is coming soon, and will be titled "XYZ," continuing the adventures in the Kalos region.

A new visual and preview offer a look at the OVA adaptation of Miyako Aoyama and Zhao Yingle's light novel Kurage no Shokudou, set to be released March 9th. Animtor Hiromi Taniguchi (Mr. Osomatsu, Punchline, Panty & Stocking) serves as director an...

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah Source: IDW Publishing Special Thanks to Kahlil Schweitzer and Tadd Galusha IDW Publishing has announced solicitations for the third issue of Godzilla: Oblivion. From the creative team of writer Joshua Fialkov (Doctor Wh...

The naughty monster girl action of Monster Musume no iru Nichijou has gone uncensored yet again thanks to the anime's newest BD release, allowing all the monstrous sexiness to be appreciated to the fullest and possibly cause a rampant surge in mon...

The incoming English dub for Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun has provided a sample of Umetaro Nozaki's English voice with this latest PV, simultaneously showcasing the laborious efforts of the voice actors involved and unfortunately giving the numerous h...

The details on EXILE ATSUSHI and AI's collaboration single "No more" have been revealed. The single's title track is currently being used as the theme song for Fuji TV's drama "Naomi to Kanako". The single is scheduled to be released on March 9.

'このろくでもない戦いに決着を！' (Ko Noroku Demonai Tatakai ni Ketchaku o! ) "A Conclusion to This Worthless Fight! " Consider the time and place, Kazuma. Surprisingly Strong, Unsurprisingly Dumb This is about the time in this comedy series where I run out of th...

Bandai Namco are bringing the smartphone game World Trigger: Smash Borders to PS Vita, and the game is now available to download via the Japanese PlayStation Store. Those who try out the free-to-play game until March 31 can get the custom theme sh...

Nintendo has began registration for their Nintendo Account service following the Japanese launch in December. Pre-registration for Miitomo is also now available for select countries. As previously reported, the Nintendo Account will make it so tha...

Ichigo Takano's shoujo manga, Orange, is headed to TV screens this summer 2016, as a new TV anime adaptation has been green-lit for the Science Fiction/ Romance manga series, and it will be animated by TMS and Telecom Animation Film.

Star Ocean 5's scantily clad mage Fiore Brunelli has obtained a trailer of her very own, showcasing her devilishly sexy appearance along with her formidable magic that will hopefully add a much needed abundance of sex appeal to the game, an appare...